A personal engineering blog with first-person write-ups on software systems, Kafka and Kubernetes lessons, testing and performance investigation, and AI-assisted personal knowledge management. Readers get practical lessons from hands-on work along with some reflections on engineering habits.
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Kent Beck writes about software design, testing and programming technique, framed as ways to improve human relationships among developers. Issues mix practical refactoring and testing advice with reflections on working with AI coding tools.
Gergely Orosz covers Big Tech and startups through the lens of senior engineers and engineering leaders, with reported detail on company practices and incidents. The sampled issues cover Anthropic's custom source control, internal vibe-coding tools at Ramp and Stripe, and the Firebase outage.
Weekly lessons that explain one AI engineering concept at a time, such as transformer internals, LLM inference serving and agent-based bug hunting. Each issue pairs concrete numbers and worked examples with a paid script readers can run themselves.
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